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The original glove was later used in Nightmare 2 - La rivincita (1985), and was also seen hanging on [...]	D
The little girl skipping rope was the daughter of the couple whose home was used as Tina's house.	D
The scene where Marge talks to Nancy about Krueger's death, and shows her his gloves was extended. N [...]	D
When checking the backyard, Glen calls for a cat, saying, "Chow, chow, chow." This is taken from a T [...]	D
The movie almost folded before production had begun. Initially, Smart Egg Productions was supposed t [...]	D
Robert Englund cut himself the first time when he tried on the infamous Freddy glove.	D
The scene where Glen (Johnny Depp) lies on the couch and can hear Tina (Amanda Wyss) and Rod (Jsu Ga [...]	D
The words "Elm Street" are not spoken at all during the movie.	D
Special make-up effects artist David B. Miller based Freddy's disfigurement on photographs of burn v [...]	D
Wes Craven had helped Sean S. Cunningham by working on a few shots for VenerdÃ¬ 13 (1980). In turn [...]	D
In the end scene, the top to the convertible came down faster and harder than expected. The expressi [...]	D
Heather Langenkamp's boyfriend at the time of the shooting is credited for creating Freddy's nursery [...]	D
In the opening dream, Tina sees and hears lambs. This is a play on the phrase "Like a lamb to the sl [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The basis of the film was inspired by the phenomenon Asian Death Syndrome, where people died in the [...]	D
Johnny Depp's next high-profile film role was playing the title character in Tim Burton's impression [...]	D
According to Wes Craven, Robert Englund was not the first choice for the role of Fred Krueger. Crave [...]	D
Film debut of Johnny Depp.	D
The poster on Glen's bedroom door when his mother enters is of the UK band Madness, used on the cove [...]	D
The movie was titled "Les Griffes de la nuit" in France, which means "The claws of the night". It al [...]	D
One of the main reasons Johnny Depp was chosen was because Wes Craven's daughter thought he was "dre [...]	D
Kane Hodder auditioned to play Freddy Krueger. He would of course later play Jason Voorhees in the " [...]	D
Wizard magazine rated Freddy Krueger the 14th-greatest villain of all time. The British television c [...]	D
In a deleted scene, featured on the LaserDisc and VHS from Anchor Bay, we learn that Nancy and many [...]	D
The film cost roughly $1.8 million to produce, of which only $57,000 was reserved for the ambitious [...]	D
Over 500 gallons of fake blood were used during filming.	D
Many extended scenes, which were cut from the work print, appeared on the 1996 Anchor Bay Special Ed [...]	D
The first was originally supposed to be set in Los Angeles, California. The script mentions the San [...]	D
In the original script, Freddy's famous red-and-green sweater was red and yellow (based on the color [...]	D
In the original script, the movie ended happily. Nancy kills Krueger by ceasing to believe in him, t [...]	D
The knives on the glove were not fishing or steak knives as many believe, but actually tomato knives [...]	D
There are no scenes with Freddy Krueger during the daytime. Although the hall monitor Nancy encounte [...]	D
Was shown uncut on cinema in Sweden at the time, a very unique decision due to the moral panic regar [...]	D
The only "Nightmare on Elm Street" film where Freddy does not have stripes on the sleeves of his inf [...]	D
Another source for the film is a 1968 short film made by students of Wes Craven at Clarkson Universi [...]	D
Roy Scheider was considered for the role of Lieutenant Thompson, but turned it down because he was b [...]	D
Robert Shaye: The voice of film's producer and owner of New Line Cinema, can be heard twice in the f [...]	D
According to Robert Englund, he based the physicality of Freddy on Klaus Kinski's performance in Wer [...]	D
Heather Langenkamp's final audition for the role of Nancy Thompson took place on Friday the 13th, Ja [...]	D
Sometimes after finishing on the film for the day, Robert Englund would tear off all of his makeup.	D
New Line Cinema was saved from bankruptcy by the success of the film, and was jokingly nicknamed "Th [...]	D
The wall-to-ceiling drag was accomplished with a rotating room created by mechanical special effects [...]	D
Ronee Blakley played a country superstar in Nashville (1975) several years before playing Nancy's mo [...]	D
On the DVD audio commentary, Wes Craven says he was told that this was the first film to use a break [...]	D
Heather Langenkamp beat over 200 actresses for the role of Nancy Thompson, among them Jennifer Grey, [...]	D
Wes Craven first came up with the basic idea for the movie from a series of articles in the "Los Ang [...]	D
Glen was supposed to rise from the bed after the bed bloodbath scene, but that was cut.	D
Tina's name is mentioned 39 times throughout the course of the film.	D
Ranked #11 in "Entertainment Weekly"'s "25 Scariest Movies of All Time."	D
The scene of Tina (Amanda Wyss) thrashing across the ceiling was shot using a rotating room set, whi [...]	D
The inspiration for the character of Freddy came from several sources in Wes Craven's childhood. Fre [...]	D
Nancy's house has a blue door in this movie. In all of the sequels, it has the iconic red door.	D
In this movie, Nancy is shown watching Raimi's La casa (1981) as she struggles to stay awake watchin [...]	D
Elm Street was named after Elm Street in Wheaton, Illinois, where Wes Craven went to college.	D
Scream Queen and B-movie legend Jewel Shepard auditioned for the role of Nancy but didn't get it bec [...]	D
Pro wrestler Tommy Gilbert wrestled for a while in Memphis as "Nightmare Freddy". His son Doug Gilbe [...]	D
During the filming of a chase sequence between Freddy and Nancy, Heather Langenkamp injured her leg [...]	D
The scene where Nancy "scuba dives" into the dreamworld while Glen sits on the sidelines as her safe [...]	D
Wes Craven: [The title plays into Craven's suburban horror theme] The film is a play on pictures of [...]	D
An omen that Johnny Depp's character is about to die occurs as he is lying in bed listening to his r [...]	D
Freddy Krueger was designed by Wes Craven to be the typical "silent" serial killer, such as Jason Vo [...]	D
An early concept art depicted Freddy wearing a long trenchcoat inspired by homeless man Wes Craven o [...]	D
The sparking glove effect seen throughout the movie was achieved by attaching the glove to a car bat [...]	D
The fictional address of the house in the film is 1428 Elm Street. The actual house where filming to [...]	D
Paramount was at one point interested in distributing the movie, which would have payed off the film [...]	D
For the blood geyser sequence where Glen (Johnny Depp) is killed, the filmmakers used the same revol [...]	D
During production, screenwriter Leslie Bohem pitched the idea of a Freddy baby to the studio. His pi [...]	D
A novel (albeit a very short one) based on the screenplay, was written by Jeffrey Cooper, and featur [...]	D
In one draft of the script, Tina's age is listed as 15, even though Amanda Wyss was 23 years old.	D
In the scene where Nancy has been up for days and looks into a mirror saying, "God I look twenty yea [...]	D
In an interview with Heather Langenkamp, she mentioned that Ronee Blakley really did slap her during [...]	D
Cinematographer Jacques Haitkin wore an eyepatch during filming, so as not to be distracted by anyth [...]	D
Ralph Macchio and Darren Dalton were considered for the part of Rod Lane, before Jsu Garcia was chos [...]	D
Freddy's sweater usually has 8 or 9 stripes across his body. However in the original, he has 11 stri [...]	D
A popular myth surrounding this film is that David Warner was originally slated to play Freddy Krueg [...]	D
Tina mentions to Nancy that a big earthquake may be coming, which "foreshadows" Nightmare - Nuovo in [...]	D
(At around 1h 7 min) There is a scene where Nancy attempts to warn Glen that Freddy is coming after [...]	D
Pro wrestler Frightmare (Stephen Delicato) has a move called the "Frightmare on Elm Street".	D
Charlie Sheen, John Cusack, Brad Pitt, Kiefer Sutherland, Nicolas Cage, and C. Thomas Howell were co [...]	D
It would take about three hours to get Robert Englund into his Freddy make-up.	D
Wes Craven admitted to feeling rather aggravated when a few scenes from the movie had to be trimmed [...]	D
For the Castilian Spanish language dub version, Fred Krueger's voice was dubbed by JosÃ© Guardiola [...]	D
The idea behind the glove was a practical one on Wes Craven's part, as he wanted to give the charact [...]	D
The scene where Freddy presses through the wall above Nancy was shot by stretching a sheet of spande [...]	D
Freddy Krueger has less than seven minutes of screen time.	D
Charlie Sheen was interested in the role of Glen, but according to producer Robert Shaye, he wanted [...]	D
A few days before the film was to go into general release, the processing lab that had the negative [...]	D
This film along with the rest of the sequels, sans Nightmare - Nuovo incubo (1994) and Nightmare (20 [...]	D
The very first time Freddy is seen in the movie, he isn't being played by Robert Englund but by spec [...]	D
Wes Craven's original concept for Freddy Krueger was considerably more gruesome, with teeth showing [...]	D
The poster above Glen's bed in his death scene is the "Grace Under Pressure" album cover by Canadian [...]	D
During production, Wes Craven stayed in a small apartment that belonged to Wim Wenders, the former h [...]	D
Although the character is credited as "Freddy" Krueger in the sequels and is more well-known by that [...]	D
Lin Shaye, the sister of producer Robert Shaye, appears in a small role of a teacher. She has appear [...]	D
Amanda Wyss wasn't too keen on having real insects crawling around her feet during the scene when Ti [...]	D
The car that Nancy, Glen, Tina, and Rod drive away in at the end is a 1958 Cadillac Series 62 Conver [...]	D
The scene where Freddy is set on fire, chases Nancy to the top of the stairs, falls back down, and s [...]	D
According to the nurse's name tag, Nancy's sleep is monitored at the "University School of Medicine" [...]	D
The film's trailer features an alternate/unfiltered voice for Freddy Krueger that remained unused in [...]	D
Film debut of Chris Tashima.	D
Nancy looks in the mirror and says, "My God, I look 20 years old". Heather Langenkamp was in fact 20 [...]	D
Robert Englund says he based Freddy Krueger on serial killers Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader (The BTK Ki [...]	D
According to Heather Langenkamp, the melting staircase scene was shot using pancake mix. Wes Craven, [...]	D
Ranked at #17 on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004). Freddy Krueger was ranked at #40 on [...]	D
In his room, Glen has a stuffed vulture doll just behind his bed that looks down on him, an omen of [...]	D
Amanda Wyss was handing out candy at her mom's house on the Halloween following the film's release a [...]	D
Near the end of production, the music supervisor, who had been given money to pay composer Charles B [...]	D
Filming began on 6/11/84 and ended on 7/13/84 after 1 month, 4 weeks, or 32 days of filming.	D
The 2006 Infinifilm release fixes a continuity error in the original film. In the scene where Glen w [...]	D
In France, the movie was re-named "The Claws of the Night"	D
In the original script, Freddy was a child molester. However, the decision was made to change him in [...]	D
An often missed dark humoured joke is following Glen's death two AMT workers can be seen with a stre [...]	D
During the scene where Nancy is running toward her house with Freddy right behind her, Heather Lange [...]	D
In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the L [...]	D
Wes Craven: [the main character experiences traumatizing nightmares that reflect reality or affect r [...]	D
The scene where Freddy's arms elongate were achieved by having men with fishing poles on each side o [...]	D
All of the boiler room footage in the film was shot in the basement of the Lincoln Heights Jail in L [...]	D
In this movie the front door of the Elm Street house is blue and the convertible is red. In the sequ [...]	D
Wes Craven wrote the script and presented it in 1981 to try to sell it to a major studio, but no one [...]	D
In the scene where Nancy falls asleep in class, the student starts to qoute a line from Hamlet, "O G [...]	D
In the scene where Nancy's dreams are "examined", when her hair turns white, the nurse is played by [...]	D
All of the death scenes have been copied by Bollywood horror films. In fact, Bollywood ripped off th [...]	D
Robert Englund's most high-profile role before he landed the career-defining gig of iconic Freddy Kr [...]	D
Toward the end of shooting, the set was visited by a few of the financial backers. This caused tensi [...]	D
Robert Englund and Lin Shaye appeared in Nightmare - Nuovo incubo (1994), Wish You Were Dead (2001), [...]	D
There is a scene in the trailer, not shown in the film, which explains why Donald Thompson believes [...]	D
Pro wrestler Shane Helms called his spinning headlock elbow drop "Nightmare on Helms Street".	D
(At around 1h 11 min) When Nancy is trying to bring Freddy to reality, she tells her dad to break th [...]	D
This movie bears a stark contrast to its slasher brethren like Halloween and Friday the 13th which a [...]	D
In Japan, the movie was re-named "Evil In Elm Street"	D
Nancy mostly calls her mother, Marge, "Mother" and she calls her father, Donald, "Daddy". This shows [...]	D
This was the second movie produced by New Line Cinema. The first was Nel buio da soli (1982), direct [...]	D
Originally, Wes Craven thought about equipping Freddy with a sickle and depicting him as "the modern [...]	D
The scene where Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is attacked by Freddy in her bathtub was shot using a bot [...]	D
Heather Langenkamp's favorite of her performances.	D
Wes Craven was a professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, which has the actual Elm Str [...]	D
Wes Craven said that Johnny Depp wasn't very confident about his own performance and that the inexpe [...]	D
Prior to making the film, Amanda Wyss had never seen a horror movie, and Heather Langenkamp had only [...]	D
Body count: 4.	D
For the scene when Freddy attempts to drown Nancy, the film crew used a water tank that was covered [...]	D
In various interviews, Robert Englund stated that Freddy's walk and mannerisms were inspired by his [...]	D
Amanda Wyss grew nervous over the prospect of filming her death scene as the set was being jerked ab [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...]	D
Nancy momentarily defeats Freddy Krueger by overcoming her fear of him. When he tries to attack her, [...]	D

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